Census nonsense: our government at work

<AHEM>Sounds like the postmaster needs to get whacked by a 'clue by four.'

The post office has a complaint form just for such occasions. . . . Then you have to somehow get it mailed . . .

Are you in one of those anti-government, militia, Michigan areas? ... Tell me the postmaster isn't one of them!

Bob Wilson

 

Oh that is just priceless!

 

I am bemused why you think a deficiency of your Post Office is the Census Department's fault?

Remember, if you are advocating giant government databases, the IRS still should not share.

 

It is very likely the census bureau does not have your PO Box; they only have your physical address. Since information sharing between the census and other government agencies is extremely limited, it is possible they can't even share the information with USPS in order to get you PO Box address.
Yes, yes my head is spining now too.

 

I'm in the same boat as Tom. The Census bureau will not mail the forms to a PO Box. I checked with our local post office and they have not received forms from Census. I'll wait for the knock on the door also.

 

The post office can mark any address to be un-deliverable at their discretion, for example, the address has a barking dog, the mail box is not at the correct location like within a certain feet of the curb side and so on, so on.
The Census will not know about this as they only send mail every ten years.

 

Amazing! And ridiculous that these agencies can't get it right. I'm sure the same situation comes up every 10 years with millions of addresses. Haven't they learned?

Just curious - how does your county tax auditor know where to mail your property tax bill? There must be a database that links your physical address with your post office box. It wouldn't be too hard for the census bureau to mine that information. Or the Postal Service, for that matter. In today's age, those envelopes should be able to get to every residence.

How did you even find out that the census bureau attempted to send the envelope to your physical address? Was it a local news story? Did your post office leave you a little "love note" in your PO box?

 

What I hated is that the government wasted money sending me a letter saying I would be getting a census in the mail soon. Then I got the census. Then I got another letter saying thanks for filling out the census or if I did not fill out the census I better fill it out.

Same thing goes for my tax return. I get a letter saying I will be getting my tax return soon and a day or a week later I get the check.

Its like I'm going to send you a letter telling you that I will be sending you a letter soon. Big waste of money.

 

Last name first, first name last, and middle initial at the end. C'mon, Tom, you're not grasping the logic here. No form, no address...obviously you don't exist, so why worry?

That's what I like about direct deposit. By the time you get the letter, the money's already in your account.

 

Such a subversive rebel, that postmaster.

I bet he could match most of the names with the numbers without straining any grey cells. Or, he could have just left the pile on the counter, with a note somewhere obvious telling people to pick up their census form. Heck, he probably knows most residents well enough he could have filled out the damn forms himself. By skewing the income data, the whole town could have qualified for massive government aid.

 

just wait til your having a heart attack and the government ambulance can't find you.

 

The existence of such databases does not imply that specific government agencies have the right to use them. Many of these databases are in unregulated private hands, where some agencies (e.g. law enforcement) can use them, and some others are forbidden to do so.

My hometown postmaster didn't need an address, or even an accurate name, to deliver items. He even quizzed myself and siblings for a clue about a builder who shared our surname but did not live locally, and was very pleased that we had seen the name on a truck and knew to which town he could forward it. But he is long retired, and it seems unlikely that the current postmaster could go to such great lengths in possible violation of agency policy.

 

..because it's haaard...makes them wanna go poopy

[thanks Lewis Black]